Sunday, May 9, 2010

Kozhakattai (sweet coconut dumplings)

Kozhukattai is a popular dish of south India. It is a steamed food.This is one of my hubbies favt snack.I always love to make this for him....


Ingredients

For stuffing:
Coconut grated – 1 cup
Chopped jaggery – ½ cup
Cardamom – 4 no
Ghee – ½ tea spoon

Dough:
Rice floor - 1 cup
Boiling water - 1 1/2 -2 cup
Salt - 2 pinch

Stuffing:
1.Put coconut, jaggery, ghee and cardamom powder in a hot pan; keep stirring till jaggery melts and mixes with other items.
2.Remove from heat when you find the mix leaving the sides of the pan without sticking.Now the stuffing for kozhukattai is ready.

Dough:
3.Boil two cups of water and add one cup of rice flour with pinch of salt; stir continuously to form a dough; cool and knead it to a soft, firm dough.

Now how to make Kozhakattai
4.Now lightly apply oil or water in hand and take lemon size dough; press it with your both hands;now fill it with stuffing.
5.Seal it and steam cook for 5 to 7 minutes or till done; after cooking you can see the change in colour.

10 comments:

Simplyfood said...

Wow these coconut sweet look delectable.

Suji said...

Adipoli kozhukatta..Kothy varunnu ketto..

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Kairali sisters

Jayanthy Kumaran said...

Kozhukattai looks colorful n delicious...Love to grab some...

PranisKitchen said...

reallly yummy kozhukkattai.nice pic too

Ann said...

Kozhukattai looks so good and yummy!

Suhaina said...

looks very very tempting. I want some right now. Pls parcel some. I am drooling here

Gita Jaishankar said...

Kozukattais look too tempting dear...pass me some :)

Nitha said...

Yummy ones... really mouthwatering..

Unknown said...

Kandittu kothiyakunnu, Beena. Nice pic!! Nalle thanne kozhukatta undakkiyittu bakki karyam :)

Unknown said...

Hi,
Wow this looks mouth watering..This is been my fav since childhood,this was one dessert which was present on Ganesh Chaturthi Festival....Pics are very tempting as well...

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